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*SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see [[:Category:Antipatris (subject)]]
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*ANCIENT SOURCES: see [[Antipatris (sources)]]
 
 
'''Antipatris (Pegai / Aphek) ''' was a town in Judah.
 
==Overview==
 
The ancient Philistine and then Israelite town of Aphek was renamed Pegai ("springs") in Hellenistic times.
 
[[Herod the Great]] turned it into a town (''Antipatris'') in honor of his father [[Antipater]].
 
The Acts of Apostles reports that Paul and his guards stopped for the night in fortified Antipatris on their way from Jerusalem to [[Caesarea Maritima]].
 
The city was destroyed in 363 CE by an earthquake. It was later used as a fort by the Crusaders, Arabs and Turks. 
 
==Antipatris in ancient sources==
 
*See [[Antipatris (sources)]]
 
==Antipatris in Scholarship==
 
==Antipatris in Fiction==
 
==References==
 
*'''Antipatris''' / [[Moshe Kochavi]] / In: [[The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary]], 1:272-274
 
==External links==
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipatris Wikipedia]




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